EVSC projects $2M loss for transportation services under new law

New legislation could reprieve district from law

Students get on school buses at Hebron Elementary School in Evansville after school on Tuesday. Indiana school districts collect property taxes to pay for buses, building repairs and debt. But legislation passed by state lawmakers in 2012 would require most of a school district’s property tax revenue to go to paying down debt, leaving fewer dollars for other items property taxes pay for such as school buses and capital projects.

Kevin Swank, The Evansville Courier & Press

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Buses line up in front of Hebron Elementary School in Evansville after school on Tuesday as students filter out after school. Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. officials have projected a more than $2 million loss in funding the district uses to pay for school buses and transportation services under a new law set to take effect this year.

Kevin Swank, The Evansville Courier & Press

Photos by KEVIN SWANK / Courier & Press
An EVSC school bus heads west on the Lloyd Expressway in Evansville on Tuesday morning. Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. officials have projected a more than $2 million loss in funding the district uses to pay for school buses and transportation services under a new law set to take effect this year. There is legislation advancing in the Indiana General Assembly would give EVSC and 91 other school districts a reprieve from following the new law for three years.

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. officials projected a loss of more than $2 million in money the district uses to pay for school buses and transportation services under a new law set to take effect this year.